I’m saddened by the negativity that surrounds elections and wanted to share my personal effort to stay positive. Elected officials are supposed to be public servants. They work for the people, which is me and you. I look at the candidates as applicants for the job openings we have in our government. As such, I want…
Finally, some good news. At a West Virginia rally on Sunday, Donald Trump announced that he and Kim Jong Un have “fallen in love” over some “beautiful letters” Kim wrote to Mr. Trump. No date set as of yet, although word is that they have registered at Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, and Loco Joe’s…
It is election time! Yes, I know, you just want the commercials to end; so do I. I would like to be able to watch TV or online videos without the threat of negative political ads popping up. LOL I will say, I am taking comfort in the abundance of great local candidates worth voting…
There are a lot of nice candidates from both parties running for public office in our great state. The problem is that many feel they are obliged to support the current Republican agenda. This administration directed children to be taken from parents seeking asylum in the USA, with no plan to ever reunite them; has…
It would have been more palatable if all this had happened incrementally, when no one was looking, and no one was aware that a crime was being committed. But it didn’t happen that way. Donald Trump carved the moral core out of the Republican Party while Republicans everywhere stood around, shuffling their feet, hands in…
In 1998 Republicans gleefully impeached Bill Clinton for conduct, which while hardly honorable, presented no threat to the rule of law, to the integrity of the democratic election process, to the freedom of the press, or to the Constitutionally defined separation of powers. His conduct invited no toxic foreign actors into the Oval Office and…
Let’s be clear on some facts. The Catholic Church is not the only religious organization that has experienced sexual abuse allegations and crimes. Not all of the sexual abusers were homosexual priests. Though 81% of the accused were later identified as sexually active homosexual males, 19% were identified as heterosexual. [1] Only 4% of all…
Every few years someone pursuing a “get rich quick” scheme comes up with an idea to use coal as a feedstock for other forms of energy like liquid or gaseous fuels. In my forty some years as an Evansville resident, there have been more than a dozen of these ploys proposed for using coal in…
Recently people have been referencing an article, online from Forbes (The Most and Least Toxic Places in America [1]) about how polluted Spencer County is. The article references an EPA report (Toxic Release Inventory [2]). In the report it mentions “toxins that have been released.” The story goes on to define “release” means that a…
To our friends and neighbors: We’re writing to you today because we consider you all as friends, and as friends and customers, we feel it’s long overdue that we share some news with you regarding the state of business at HLS Health + Wellness. In January of 2016, HLS made the decision to outsource customer…
